Ventilator for corrugated structures



Oct. 28, 1941. P. G. MASTERS VENTILATOR FOR CORRUGATED STRUCTURES 3 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Dec, 18, 1959 Oct- 28, 941- P. G. MASTERS VENTILATOR FOR CORRUGATED STRUCTURES Filed Dec. 18, 1939 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 ,...x @m M WW Y Z m W f ///////T` A Oct. 248, 1941. P. G. MASTERS VENTILATOR FOR CORRUGATED STRUCTURES- Filed Dec. 18, 1939 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 rra/Mix Patented Oct. 28, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT `OFFICE VENTILATOR FOR CORRUGATED STRUCTURES Paul G. Masters, Huntington Valley, Pa., assignor to Pennsylvania Wire Glass Company, l'ihiladelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvanial Application December 1s, 1939, serial No. 309,771

3 Claims.

One object of the present invention is to provide corrugated wall structures with corrugated glass ventilators of the type that are pvoted intermediate of their top and bottom edges in a simple, comparatively inexpensive and satisfactory manner; another object of the present invention is to provide a construction at the meeting edges of the ventilator frame aixed to the Wall structure and the pivotally mounted ventilator frame which shall be sightly and at the same time exclude wind and weather from the interior of the building construction; another .object is to provide a construction of the character indicated in which the corrugated wall sheets and the corrugated ventilator sheets are securely `mounted and protected from accidental breakage.'

Other objects of the invention will appear from Vthe following description at the end of which the invention will be claimed.

Generally stated, the invention consists of the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which,

Figure 1 is a vertical section through a ventilator construction embodying features of theV invention and from which details of construction are omitted for the sake of clearness.

Figure 2 is a detached View of a rectangular frame which is mounted in the wall structure.

Figure 3 is a detached view of a ventilator frame which is pivotally mounted in the xed frame shown in Figure 2.

Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional views drawn to an enlarged scale, Fig. 4 showing the construction above the pivotal mounting, and Fig. 5 showing the construction below the pivotal mounting.

Figure 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 6--6 of Fig. 1 but showing detail not illustrated in the latter figure.

Figure 7 is a similar View taken on the line 1--1 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a vertical section taken on the line 8-8 of Figure 6; and g Figure 9 is a sectional View taken on the line 9-9 of Figure 3 and drawn to an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, the swinging frame shown in Figure 3 and which is pivoted at I, Figure 1, to the xed frame shown in Figure 2, has (Figs. 4 and 5) in its top and bottom members respectively three flanges of which one 3 is generally horizontal and of which two, 4 and 5,

in alignment in the top member, Fig. 4, and are out of alignment in the bottom member Fig. 5. The fixed frame shown in `Figure 2 has at the top a horizontal flange 6 and a vertical flange 1, Fig. 4, abutting respectively the inner edge of the horizontal flange 6 at the top of the faceof the upstanding flange 4 at the top of a swinging frame and the vertical flange 'I abutting-at the end of the flange 3 of the swinging frame, and atV the bottom, Figure l5, a horizontal ang'e 8 abutting at its end on the inner face of the vertical ange 41 of the swinging frame. The vertical members 9 andv I0, Figs. 6 and 7, of both frames are spaced apart and consist'respectively of two flanges of Whichone II liesin the plane lof thewalland the other I2 at right angles thereto forming a1 Vertical space a. There are corrugatedrnembers I3 forming part of the wall vthe lower section is secured below the'pivot I to the fixed frame and above the pivot to the swing'- ingframe.v Z-shaped strips are secured tothe insider-faces of' the respective flanges I2 ofthe side' members of the frames and these Z-shaped strips have one ange I'Ia overlying the iiange I1 of the section I5 of U-shaped weather strip and having the other flange I8 provided with clips or bolts I9 for holding corrugated sheets. Sash and jamb caps 20 and 2| cover the edge of the corrugated sheets which confront the side bars of the frames and these caps 20 and 2I are turned in over the edge of the iiange Ila of the Z- shaped strips to close the space a. in box form. By the described construction rain and weather are excluded where the side parts of the ventilator vadjoin the wall construction. From the top of the fixed frame depends a weather strip 22 having an inturned flange 22a at its lower end and this flange 22ab abuts on the outside of the corrugated material. 23 is a weather strip secured at the top of the swinging frame and provided with a flange 24 that co-operates with the strip 22. At this point it may be remarked that for the sake of clearness in the drawings some space is shown between the weather strips of relatively thin material, Whereas in the actual structure they should contact with each other are generally vertical and are disposed generally and they do so under some spring pressure. Re-

ferring to Figure 9, 25 is a bar in the swinging frame and in line withitthe spaced edges of the corrugated glass are covered by outside and inside strips 26 and2l and the strip 26 secured to the bar 25 by means of a bolt 28. The construction last described is already employed in the art. Referring-to Figure 4,y 29 is a pad upon which the corrugated material I3, which usually@ is glass, rests anda similar pad is shown in Figure and on it rests kthe corrugated material I 4; 30 indicates a corrugated filling strip cor` i tion of the upstanding Vertical flange of the movrugated on one edge in conformity with the corrugations of the sheets `I3and I4 and it iswell ries a strip 3I Yof flexible nietal-prvided with a v known vin the art. The horizontal flange 8 carflange 32 confronting the flange '41 lto'forrri va -seal 'l v at the lower edge of swingingframe.

I claim:

l. For a corrugated sheet building wall construction including a ventilator comprising "a fixedl frame mounted in ani opening in the wall and a movableframe pivotallym'ounted in the yflxed iframe, for movement about a' horizontal axis, the improvement'which comprises the combination of' adjacent side elements" of the ilXed and Vof the movable: frames arranged with their v c'ontronting "faces in"spaced '.relation, trough shaped ,sections of thin metal strips secured respectively above Ithe pivotal mounting Ito the loutside surface of the sideelement of .the movable 'frame and below the mounting` to the outside 'face of the side' elementofth'e fixed frame, Aone Aof the'anges of the' trough 'shaped `strips spanning ythe space between the sideelments andthe v,other,flange being shorter than the rst and partially spanning said space, Zv-shapedfstrip'sof thinjietal secured respectively tothe inside fae vof* said elements and havingone of'theinflanges overlapping the last mentioned short flange and havingY another of their flangesprojecting from the inside face ofthe side elements and provided Iwith clips for 'holding an edge of the corrugated shevets,` and weather strips secured toA said' clips and overlying the corrugatedsheets and inturned Abetween a flange of the Z-shaped strips and thershorter flange of the trough shaped strip. i

For a corrugated lsheet building wall conistruction including fa ventilator' comprising a ,5b

xedframe mounted in an openingin' the-wall,

ableframe, the bottom members of said frames 4having like flanges but in reverse relative arrangements, a weather'r strip of thin metal 22 clamped between the said vertical flange 'I of the top Vmember of the xed frame and the flxed frame and depending from the top member of the'flxed frame and inwardly flanged at its lower edge toward the movable frame, a weather strip of thin metal mounted over the top of the movable frame, and outwardly flanged towarclthe rst mentioned weather strip, and abutting sheet metal weather strips arranged between the lower members of each frame and respectively carried thereby.

3. For a corrugated sheet building lwall con struction including a ventilator comprising 4a flxed frame mounted in an openingin vthe wall and a movable frame pivotally mounted inthe flxed frame for movement aboutv a horizontal axis, the improvement which comprises the combination of adjacent side elements of thexed 'and of the movable frames arranged with their confronting faces in spaced relation; trough shaped sections I5 of thin metal strips secured respectively above the. pivotal mounting tothe outside surface of the side element of the movtioned lflanges I'Ia and' each confrontingy the Shorter flange I'I of the trough-shaped stripsg; vPAUL G MAsTERs 

